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Title: Mario Party 6
Post by: Pikkcuber on August 26, 2004, 04:45:58 PM
Ive always been a Mario Party fan, I played them all except 5, and i own 2 and 4.  I was dissapointed with 4, the minigames were just not very fun.  But i am excited about MP6.  The microphone controller that will come with the game sounds really cool, I always drool over Karokke Revolution on the PS2.  But how this will work into a Mario Party game doesnt really make sense.  Any body have any ideas how they could use this in the minigames except for the obvious Karooke,and question answering aspect.  I suppose you wont have to use the mic for the whole game.  The stupid thing is that if you play together with 3 people you will most likely have to have 4 of those controllers. I just thought this mic idea is very interesting  
Title: RE:Mario Party 6
Post by: speedygonzalaz on August 26, 2004, 11:30:20 PM
i thought the mario partys were great i hope the next will be more improved this time its great for playing with m8ts
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: KDR_11k on August 26, 2004, 11:54:25 PM
The louder you scream the faster you go? (aka voice decathlon)
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: Mario on August 27, 2004, 12:18:13 AM
That'd be awesome, endurance races fueled by hilarious yelling.

EDIT!

Now that I think about it it's kinda pretty very lame. It will be impossible to have more than one person using thier own mic at a time unless you're on complete opposite sides of a really huge room, since the other microphone could catch what you're saying and screw everything up, if the multi using a mic is taking turns then laaaaame.  
Title: RE:Mario Party 6
Post by: joshnickerson on August 27, 2004, 03:22:38 AM
After reading the press release for MP6, I don't know if you'll use the microphone EXCLUSIVELY. Iwata may have mis-spoke when he said the game would NOT use controllers.
From the press release--
"How to progress through the game: In Party mode, players take turns traveling around game boards while competing with friends (or CPU players) for coins and stars in frantic mini-games! Story mode offers a strong single-player experience. In Mic mode, players speak into the Mic to answer questions in a game show. "
So perhaps there is only certain games that use the mic... or perhaps a separate mode all together... oh, I've confused myself...
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: couchmonkey on August 27, 2004, 10:44:49 AM
See, if they're using controllers AND the mic, that kind of defeats the purpose.  It's only making the game even more complicated than the other Mario Partys.  Which isn't to say it would be a bad thing, since I can't imagine how you'd build an entire party game around the mic.  I will be very interested indeed to see how this game works.

Sega: Please give me Seaman.
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: Bill Aurion on August 27, 2004, 11:04:10 AM
Gotta love the classic "Hate on something before it's revealed or even explained" philosophy Ninty "fans" like to use...
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: odifiend on August 27, 2004, 12:01:06 PM
The thing is mic games aren't new.  Nintendo has even made its own mic game in the past.  And there are only so many possibilities for a mic, what with voice recognition being pretty limited.  Also the mic will take a controller port making the game 3 players or turn based, and by the sound of mic mode, it will be turn based.
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on August 27, 2004, 12:43:08 PM
3 against 1.

The 1 gets to beat the other players over the head with the Mic.
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: odifiend on August 27, 2004, 01:04:26 PM
Sing in tune or the others throw tomatoes at you!
Title: RE:Mario Party 6
Post by: joeamis on August 27, 2004, 03:38:32 PM
The microphone is only being used for one mode according to new previews.  It's used for just a question answering mode part of the game.  It sounds like Nintendo is just doing this to experiment with microphone type gameplay before implementing it more fully for DS games.  I hope this isn't the peripheral they've been talking about for Gamecube that will change the way people play games.  Hopefully something more significant for a new peripheral will come out next year.
Title: RE:Mario Party 6
Post by: Hostile Creation on August 27, 2004, 07:38:05 PM
Is this the one that's supposed be made by HAL?

Prof666 has got it right.  1 vs 3 could be cool.  And the other three could scream and laugh and screw him up, it'd be hysterical.
And let's not forget that they'll probably have non-mic minigames, too.
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: KDR_11k on August 27, 2004, 11:36:30 PM
Answering questions would include picking up a wide array of phrases, that's going to be a worst case scenario for voice recognition (unless you only say "one", "two", "three" and so on)
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: Mario on August 27, 2004, 11:56:01 PM
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(unless you only say "one", "two", "three" and so on)

That would be pointless, wouldn't it be just as easy to press one button on a controller?
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: KDR_11k on August 28, 2004, 07:42:43 AM
Well, yes, but then you couldn't add "voice recognition!!!11!1!!" to the back of the box.
Title: RE:Mario Party 6
Post by: Pikkcuber on August 28, 2004, 03:56:33 PM
3 on 1 might not work because you never know who the 1 guy will be so you keep have to switch controllers around and stuff, to confusing.  I guess we just have to wait until we hear more
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on December 08, 2004, 01:38:22 PM
Everybody do the BUMP!!

What pisses me off is the Mario Party 6 commercials I've seen on TV say absolutely nothing about the mic.  No one's going to buy another rehash!
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: Ian Sane on December 08, 2004, 01:54:04 PM
"What pisses me off is the Mario Party 6 commercials I've seen on TV say absolutely nothing about the mic. No one's going to buy another rehash!"

That's pretty dumb.  Realistically I don't think anyone who doesn't already buy all the Mario Party games is going to buy this one anyway.  Regardless of how new the mic is Mario Party has long overstayed it's welcome and those who aren't interested in it anymore never will be.  But still they should mention the mic in the ad.  I haven't seen the ad but it sounds like the usual "if you don't know everything about this game already you will not relate to this ad in any way" Cube commercial with zero info about the game given.
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: Bill Aurion on December 08, 2004, 02:04:27 PM
Actually this game seems to have the most interesting minigames to date...I'll definitely give it a shot...
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on December 08, 2004, 02:05:01 PM
It's not even much of an ad, which is another thing I hate a lot about some of Nintendo's commercials...it just shows some footage with the traditional "All new stages with 150 more minigames!" voice in the background.
Title: RE:Mario Party 6
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on December 08, 2004, 09:09:25 PM
That is strange they don't mention the mike, oh well! For anyone that thinks Mario Party has overstayed its welcome, send MP6 over to my place, that series hasn't even begun to get dry to myself and my family!
Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: prefect on December 12, 2004, 09:23:42 PM
I totally agree with VGrevolution!  They can go to Mario Party 1000 as long as they keep coming up with interesting boards, items and minigames!!  Overstayed its welcome?  ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Title: RE: Mario Party 6
Post by: Deguello on December 12, 2004, 09:49:32 PM
A neat thing you can do with the mic:

On the Mode Select screen, if you say "Goomba," the two goombas on the screen start running around.  You also get a reaction if you say the hosts names, "cheep cheep," and "fly guy."

Pretty neat.
Title: RE:Mario Party 6
Post by: GoldenPhoenix on December 13, 2004, 02:16:54 PM
I picked up MP6 the other die and played a game with my family, definately a blast. Some of the mini games are lame (like ever other iteration of the series) but there are some truly fun, and creative mini games in it. It is funny even after all these years, I still am excited to see what new mini game will pop up while playing. The monopoly aspect of it is also very cool, along with the night and day gimmick. THe mic games are also fun except for some poor voice recognition in SOME places.